Giovanni Conti

Italy

Winner of second prize at the Premio Cantelli in Milan and first prize at the CAMPUS Dirigieren Competition, Giovanni Conti was born in Varese in 1996 into a family of musicians.

From the 2026/27 season onwards, he will take up the position of Kapellmeister and Assistant to the General Music Director at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Since the 2022/23 season, he has served as Kapellmeister at the theatres of Krefeld and Mönchengladbach. In his first two seasons there, he conducted Verdi's Rigoletto and a new production of Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims, which was met with widespread acclaim from both audiences and critics. He has also conducted performances of Bellini's La sonnambula, Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.

Highlights of the 2024/25 season has included Verdi’s La traviata, Gounod’s Faust, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and a staged production of Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah. During his final season in Krefeld and Mönchengladbach, he will conduct Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Puccini’s La Bohème and a new production of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci.

In October and November 2022, he conducted Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna with the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, as part of the Ravenna Festival. More recently, he has made debuts with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala, the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Württembergische Kammerorchester Heilbronn, and the Orchestra della Toscana.

He studied conducting under Daniele Agiman at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatoire in Milan, before completing a Master’s degree at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart with Rasmus Baumann. He has participated in masterclasses with, among others, Riccardo Muti and Daniele Gatti.

Among the orchestras he conducted are Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Staatskapelle Weimar, Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Niederrheinische Sinfoniker and Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen.

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